TAD Atma-sphere TTWeights Soundsmith

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Updating the virtual System.

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- TAD CR1
TAD Compact Reference with Beryllium coincident tweeter and midrange.
- Graham Engineering Phantom
Excellent sound, and a joy to set up and use. Damping fluid not used.
- Soundsmith Strain Gauge
Phono cart system including phono stage
- PS Audio PerfectWave DAC
PWD - with network bridge board.
- Atma-Sphere MA-1 mk3.1
140 watts of Triode Power, fully balanced monoblock design with V-cap upgrade. OTL- No transformers to get in the way of the music. Notice the point to point wiring featured under the chassis of this unit, which actually was routed much neater on their older chassis, but they went to this design to fit into a standard equipment rack. Even before I fired these up for the first time I just had take a look under the hood and snap this pic. You can see the 38 beautifully glowing tubes in the system pics.
- Atma-Sphere MP-1 Mk3.1 Remote Volume
All tube Preamp now with remote volume. So much depth and harmonic richness. Beautiful build quality.
- Stealth Audio Hyperphono
Hyperphono phono cable
- Starsound Technologies Sistrum SP-1
Sitting under Raven One turntable- a very nice improvement.
- Acoustic System Resonators various
I have 6 in total, from basic to silver to gold special. SInce i have limited space, the only acoustical treatment I have are Roomtune Corner tunes and these Resonators. They actually do work.
- Oyaide AC receptacles and Plug P-004 and R-1
Beryllium plated AC plug and outlet made a big difference over stock outlets and Hubbel plug. I have two more R-1's that have to go in a quad box to replace Powerports. (which should be interesting to see if there is an improvement)
- TTWeights Momentus Duo Drive Supreme
150 lb modular turntable

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Hi RD,
By the looks of things you made it all work just fine!

A thought came to mind after your comment on my page regarding the VPI record cleaning machine.

If you do not already have a record cleaner,the VPI 16.5 will do a very effective job.

I'm familiar with this brand though I'm sure there are others on the market that are just as good for the price.

I did mention the fluid dispencer on the 17F on my page, you could use it with the Walker prelude solution with only one type of solution only.
There is a stepped method to using the kit and solutions.

Though you could verywell have something else in mind.
The 17F would be agood one to own or some of the other brands like Kuzma and Clearaudio.

If you have many thousands of LPs that you plan on listening to at some point,then I would spend the money on a larger better unit then the 17F.

Regards Mark

stiltskin April 10, 2008 22:40

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